Another weekend where Jeff, Eric, and Bob were rebooting servers, restarting processes, etc. to keep the project more or less afloat. The broken things are still broken. We had a meeting this morning to discuss solutions. We have some things to try in the database realm, but we're close to upgrading that server anyway, so the "slow query" issue may very well just time out. As for the NFS/network issues, we may just replace kryten with another one of our newer servers (which is already in use as a computer server, so we'll need to replace that, too). That is, unless some other server materializes.

The network upgrades planned for today were moved until middle of next week. We have the THEMIS project to thank, as they are launching this week and therefore there is a lab-wide lockdown on any major network changes. Fair enough.

- Matt-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Another weekend where Jeff, Eric, and Bob were rebooting servers, restarting processes, etc. to keep the project more or less afloat. The broken things are still broken. We had a meeting this morning to discuss solutions. We have some things to try in the database realm, but we're close to upgrading that server anyway, so the "slow query" issue may very well just time out. As for the NFS/network issues, we may just replace kryten with another one of our newer servers (which is already in use as a computer server, so we'll need to replace that, too). That is, unless some other server materializes.

The network upgrades planned for today were moved until middle of next week. We have the THEMIS project to thank, as they are launching this week and therefore there is a lab-wide lockdown on any major network changes. Fair enough.

- Matt

Thank You Matt for the NEWS & Updates . . . something 4 Y'All . . .

Artist's concept of the release of the five THEMIS probes from their carrier.
After launch, the probes will take 10 months to coast into the desired orbits
around Earth, such that every four days they line up along the planet's magnetotail
Copyrighted 2007 NASA images